A/N: Good day to all of you! Hope you enjoy this as much as the last chapter that I gave you. Anyway, for Type – Moon fans I based the appearance of Caster from Takeshi Takeuchi's final outline. I feel that Takashi's drawings were much more close to the actual definition of her characteristics. As for Kejoro's command seals, those will be based from the Fate/Extra Protagonist's seals. Also, I want to apologize early if my characters don't act as they are originally characterized from their respective stories in this story.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. If I do, I would have made Fate/Extra CCC redo the entire game with Takashi Takeuchi's illustrations and it will not be released on March 28 as they promised. All credits go to Gen Urobuchi and Type – Moon for Fate/Zero and Hiroshi Shiibashi for Nurarihyon no Mago.

Chapter 2: Selection

It's been a while after they defeated Abe no Seimei, the most powerful being they ever encountered. They would not have defeated that abomination if not for the help of one of the most powerful of the Kyoto Youkai, Hagoromo Gitsune, who once again took the form of Yamabuki Otome for reasons unknown other than her making a choice on who will she take care of the most.

Another day for the Nura Clan House, and it was a peaceful day, complete with birds chirping in contentment, a clear blue sky, and clouds that looks like a feathered blanket, indicating that the winds may slightly blow to aid faster in drying the clothes that were about to be hanged in a makeshift clothesline.

"It's time to hang the laundry!" the beautiful courtesan chimed as she prepares to hang the clothes and dry them in the summer sun that unleashed its first waves of heat on the Nura clan house. She energetically prepared the laundry as if it was her last day.

"Can I help you with that, Kino?" A man with no neck called upon her human name and he offered his hand to help her with the enormous amount of laundry that she will be hanging

The woman who was called Kino said "Thank you very much, Kubinashi, but this is a woman's job." She puffed out her chest proudly, showing even more of her curves.

The man named Kubinashi quoted with a hint of insult and a smirk on his face "If you say so, my little courtesan."

Kino felt insulted at that statement and with a raised eyebrow she fumed, "I'm already a woman, you know! Want me to put you in between my chest?"

But before she could make any further threats, Kubinashi ran away comically as fast as he can. Kino sighed and decided to dismiss that scene as if it never happened. Wakana, Rikuo's mother, softly laughed at the two when she saw that scene outside their house.

After she finished hanging the laundry, she decided to help Rikuo's mother to prepare lunch for the family, and by that word, it means a whole lot of different species of Youkai who currently reside at the house.

But before she could pick up the laundry basket, she felt a sudden sharp pain at the back of her left hand. It burned the back of her hand, like a branding iron which is used for branding cows. The pain lasted for seconds when Rikuo came out. Rikuo was shocked to see one of his subordinates clutching in pain and decided to get a first aid – kit and run towards her as quickly as possible to help her.

"Kejoro – san, is there something wrong?" Rikuo said with a hint of concern as he prepared the iodine solution and a bandage.

Kejoro weakly got up from the place that she crouched from and said "I think…something branded me, but I don't…know what it is." She looked at her left hand, and she saw that strange blood – red markings were on the back of her left hand.

"I think I knew the answer to that." A man with a gourd – shaped head had appeared and approached the two with a calm demeanor.

"Soudaisho!?" Kejoro was dumbstruck as she saw Nurarihyon, the Soudaisho, use the signature technique of the Three Heirs of the Nura Clan, the Kyouka Suigetsu, to appear. She had seen her former commander Nura Rihan use Kyouka Suigetsu at least a number of times, but the technique never failed to astound her again and again.

He calmly analyzed the markings that was on her left hand and came up with a simple conclusion: "You are chosen to fight in the Holy Grail War."

She looked dumbstruck for 3 seconds, followed by shock, and last, a scream of disbelief that annoyed the neighboring houses. The old man watched in amusement and laughed heartily as he observed his deceased son's subordinate, now his grandson's subordinate, cry comically at the unfortunate event that she was in.

No matter what kind of war this is, it's still a war!, she wailed at that thought.

After an hour of comical wailing inside the house, and one week brooding at the corner of her room in a shocked condition, she decided to resign to the dismal fate and accept the circumstances that she is currently in. Nurarihyon took the "seat of wisdom" and made Kejoro listen to one of his "old man lectures" about the nature of the Grail War and the types of servants summoned, together with Rikuo, Kubinashi, Aotabo, Tsurara, Kappa and Kurotabo. He also recalled the experience that he had when he was still in his youth as the Supreme Commander of the Hyakki Yakou.

"I remembered the days when Fuyuki, another district not so near from Tokyo started these so – called 'wars' for an 'omnipotent wish – granting device'. They started the wars due to the fact that the grail can only grant one wish. Youkai had no business with these wars since those wars did not affect the youkai's lives at all until this day. This made me curious, as the grail only chooses humans with magical abilities called magi or humans who have a wish. This is the first time I saw this phenomenon." He finished his musings with a flick of a match to light his old pipe.

"Grandpa, so that means Kejoro – san was the first youkai participant in this war?" Rikuo said, while other youkai were already making their way closer to the meeting room to make their eavesdropping better.

"You have pointed it out precisely, Rikuo. Honestly, I don't know what wish she has…" Nurarihyon deducted with a serious look on Kejoro's face. She laughed nervously when the old man said with a straight face, "You're wishing for me to be in my youth so that you can smother me with your kisses, weren't you?"

Although her urge to strangle the old man was rising, she said with a raised eyebrow and a polite statement that hid her fumes perfectly well: "I think that's not what I'm wishing for, Soudaisho."

"Ah, my apologies for that, Kejoro – san." the old man laughed again heartily. It really feels good for the Soudaisho to annoy his grandson's subordinates once in a while.

"Now back to the topic. Soudaisho, what are the markings in my hand?" Kejoro inquired the old man. As much as she wants to strangle him, she wanted to jot down some mental information if she wants to survive the war and get back to strangling the old man.

"Those are command seals, which is used to give absolute orders to your servant, which you will summon tonight. I have the written instructions here on how to summon a servant…" the Soudaisho stopped abruptly when Tsurara butted in, "Soudaisho, where did you get that information?"

"I researched on some of the lands that had youkai, and I found this among the archives of one particular temple in Fuyuki. Strangely, there are no youkai in this city, even though there's a temple." Nurarihyon said, before continuing his lessons.

"As I was saying, you will summon your servant tonight. I have the leaflet of instructions here. Actually, it's the Grail that will summon the servant; all you have to do is to make an 'anchor' to make your servant stay in this world. As for the artifact, I present to you this one." Nurarihyon produced a box and opened it. The box contained one small chipped stone, but as she observed closer she sensed a dreaded aura remaining in that small stone.

"Is that… the remains of a Sesshouseki?"

"My point exactly, Kejoro."

"Where did you get that, Soudaisho?" Kurotabo inquired, courtesy of Aotabo nudging him to ask more information from the Soudaisho.

"I have my sources." He replied with a wink. Moving onto the topic at hand, he continued "Since you are a person who has the Fear type of Manipulation, there are high chances that you can summon either Caster or Berserker. Although Berserker type servants are more practical for quick battle finishes, they are harder to manipulate, and can drain your reserves early in battle, so that leaves…"

"Caster. But, Soudaisho, you said that chances of summoning servants of a specific class are very slim."

"There are two cases in which you can summon a particular servant. One was for the case of Berserker class which had added chant lines for Madness Enhancement."

I think I won't ask for the so – called chant lines of Madness Enhancement. She shuddered at that thought alone of chanting the Summoning chant with lines of Madness Enhancement but still took note of the information. "And the other one will be what, Soudaisho?" She said with full curiosity.

"The other case is ones with artifacts that have strong affinity to a particular class that can summon that class like the one that I have here." Nurarihyon finished. "But I'm sure you can get along with each other, considering the class that we will have."

"Okay, if you say so, Soudaisho." she reluctantly replied, and followed the instructions on how to draw a summoning circle in their basement, using mercury as a substance for drawing circles. She decided to use this one instead of blood since she saw too much already in the last war that they fought.

After painstakingly finishing the circle, she placed the artifact in front of the circle, and chanted these lines in Japanese language on the night of a full moon as the other youkai, including Tsurara, Rikuo, Kubinashi, Aotabo, Nurarihyon and Kurotabo watched a rare spectacle happening before their eyes…

"Silver and iron to the origin. Gem and the archduke of contracts to the cornerstone. The ancestor is my great master Schweinorg.

The alighted wind becomes a wall. The gates in the four directions close, coming from the crown, the three-forked road that leads to the kingdom circulate.

Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill.

Repeat every five times.

Simply, shatter once filled.

The circle flared to life as she continued the chant:

"I announce.

Your self is under me, my fate is in your sword.

In accordance with the resort of the Holy Grail, if you abide by this feeling, this reason, then answer.

The Circle flared even brighter and something inside the circle was slowly forming as she summons her servant. She continued to chant these lines even though she felt that her Fear is slowly dwindling.

"Here is my oath. I am the one who becomes all the good of the world of the dead, I am the one who lays out all the evil of the world of the dead.

You, seven heavens clad in three words of power, arrive from the ring of deterrence, O keeper of the balance!"

Meanwhile, the stones of Sesshouseki from the three separate locations resonated with flaring white – blue light that died immediately as the summoning of Kejoro's servant was completed.

"Victory is now ours with him as my servant." A man in a red suit proudly proclaimed after the summoning ritual as the blonde – haired man in golden armor appeared from the summoning circle. The man from the church watched the whole ritual with brown eyes devoid of emotion and looked on with disinterest.

A teenage boy of 19 years stumbled for a moment, and then looked at his servant with glee from his eyes. As the smoke is cleared by the cool winds that blew, his servant stood proudly with wind blowing towards his red coat.

This is my chance to show them how great I am…, he thought of all the possibilities of all the feats that his servant will display due to his knowledge that his servant is a king of conquest.

A person in a nightmarish black armor appeared from the summoning circle and that servant roared inside his helmet. The old man unleashed an evil cackle as he saw the desired puppet and savoured the moment of fleeting victory as he thought of the possibilities that he can do with his former runaway son's servant.

Inside the church – like structure of the Einzbern castle in Germany, a man in a black long coat and a woman in a white dress slightly adorned in gold lines were astonished at the appearance of a servant they were aiming for, which is the one who was bestowed upon the title of "The King of Knights".

"I am Arthuria Pendragon, and I am summoned under the Saber Class. Tell me, are you my master?" King Arthur, also called Arthuria Pendragon, proclaimed proudly with an air of regality.

The servant that they thought is a "he" was a "she". Misinformation on history can be a very tragic thing indeed, especially if you are about to summon one of the legendary servants capable of breaking the war with relative ease. The one who summoned her somehow ditched his earlier plan of "the strongest way to use the strongest servant" and had somehow managed to carelessly dump it in the mental dump of foiled plans and dreams.

"Kiritsugu…" the woman in white looked at him with concern.

The man named Kiritsugu, with former dead obsidian eyes, still looked at her emerald eyes with astonishment for a few more seconds, before turning his expressions into more of a "this is business, nothing personal" serious look on his face, and turning his face away from his servant, he now left the building in a hurried walk.

"Kiritsugu!" the woman in white called out with concern for her husband while Saber tried to catch up and also called out to her Master, but to no avail. The woman in armor concluded in her thoughts that day that her master is a cold and aloof one, capable of formulating a complex calculation of logic.

The youkai were awestruck at what they have seen from the servant of Kejoro. She has fox ears and a fox tail that looks like it's out of cosplay, wears a blue kimono that's more provocative than Kejoro, and bubbly proclaimed the words in a very modern and polite Japanese language to confirm whether the one who summoned her is a master or not:

"I am Tamamo – no – Mae, and I am summoned under the Caster Class. Please tell me, are you my Goshujin – sama?"

The other youkai who saw this, except Rikuo, who was blindfolded immediately courtesy of Tsurara's instincts, and Kurotabo, Aotabo and Nurarihyon who were either dumbstruck or astonished, have drowned in a pool of nosebleed for the said fan service that Kejoro's servant had graciously provided.

Kejoro could just watch with shock and awe as events like this unfolded before her own two eyes. She thought that she'll meet a real goddess who speaks in antiquated Keigo Japanese language, has a commanding attitude like a goddess and a goddess who dresses like a real Yamato Nadeshiko. She can't believe that her servant was more provocatively dressed than her. Then she just did a facepalm and sighed as she saw her servant fail her expectations of meeting with one of the facets of the Shinto goddess.

Footnotes (Taken from Nurarihyon no Mago wiki and Type – Moon Wiki):

Fear (Osore) – unique traits and skills for the Youkai. This serves somewhat as a version of Mana meter for the youkai.

Manipulation – A Fear type which enables the user to manipulate another or himself/herself. In Kejoro's case, she manipulates her own hair as a weapon.

Keigo – a polite type of Japanese Language

Goshujin – sama – a polite and antiquated translation of the word "master" and, if one is a guy, may be denoted as proper way of saying "husband"

Caster's Stat Sheet: I based some of her stats on my goal on what I will apply to my current playable Caster to reach her maximum ability. Her other abilities were taken from the Type – Moon Wiki:

Strength: C

Defense: A

Agility: B

Mana: EX

Luck: A

Territory Creation: C

Witchcraft: EX

Shapeshift (This will come in play in the upcoming chapter/s): A

Noble Phantasm: Suiten Nikkou Amaterasu Yanoshisu Ishi (Water Heavens Sunlight Heavens Shine Eight Fields Weight Stone)

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